Letting Inflation Raise Your Taxes
I’ve seen this elsewhere in the conservative blogosphere, but it’s good when someone who really knows what they’re talking about points this out: In 1960, only 3% of tax filers paid a 30% or higher marginal tax rate. By 1980, after the inflation of the 1970s, the share was closer to 33%. In 1981, Congress realized [...]

Barack Obama’s Disconnect With the Fort Hood Shooting
One wonders what he or his advisors were thinking: Yesterday, however, stark reality of a very different sort intruded: News broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas. Soon enough, the full impact of the horror became evident: 13 dead, another 30 injured. The full details and investigation of the [...]

Removing Zip Code as a Quality of Life Factor
City Journal’s article concerning Westchester County’s (NY) election of a Republican county executive (news in and of itself) highlights one of the American left’s long-term goals: the complete levelling of people relative to location, so that you don’t have “good neighbourhoods” and “bad neighbourhoods” any more. Although the right is usually diligent in documenting the radical [...]

Massachusetts Man Terminated from Job for his Belief in Traditional Marriage
I wonder what they would have done if his comeback was that he thought civil marriage itself was wrong. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

With Two Cats in the Yard. But Only One in the House.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fans in Dudley, MA, need to do the math: Voters last night added language to a town by-law that will make it illegal to own more than three cats without a kennel license, though Selectman Steven Sullivan said housing three felines was already a violation. The local rodents are already breaking out [...]